Rawhide vs F9

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 02:43 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > If I install Rawhide (or an F9 beta) now, how reliably will I be able to
> > upgrade to F9 when it appears in 3 weeks or so? I don't want Rawhide to
> > be permanently enabled after upgrading, but I'm afraid that keeping up
> > to date before the official release will push some packages past the
> > versions finally available on F9.
> 
> Rawhide repos will automagically point to Fedora 9 when it's released.
> 
> http://spevack.livejournal.com/33314.html
> 
> > I guess what I'm asking is "is this likely to be any easier than a full
> > F8->F9 upgrade"?
> 
> Faster for sure. Easier depends on whether you hit major bugs in rawhide.
> 
> Rahul

OK, that's fairly clear, thanks.

poc